Lisa Walsh interviews teaching principal, Edward Fitzgerald. This topic packed podcast dives deep into multigrade classroom teaching, differentiation opportunities through problem solving and supporting gifted students.
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Other topics covered in the episode include:
Using stories and picture books to support maths teaching:
- Impact on Parental Involvement.
- How often to use them.
- Tips and ideas for using them.
- How to select a suitable picture book.
Explore some of the book ideas discussed here: https://www.mathsthroughstories.org/
Developing a Problem Based approach to learning:
- What a typical lesson might look like
- Choosing tasks where everyone can get into the lesson and everyone caget stuck on or challenged by the lesson
- supporting pupils who might find it hard to get started
- Grouping
- Timing when to intervene
- Presentation / display of work
- Assessment
- Exploring mistakes
- Approach to planning
- Tips for starting off using this approach
- Sourcing Problems
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